Timely column by Robyn Blumner on Huckabee as a scientific illiterate following in Bush’s footsteps:
*"Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is gaining as a GOP presidential contender. He may be a friendly face, but the ordained Baptist minister is no friend to reason. In the Republican primary debate last May, he was one of three in the field to raise his hand to proclaim that he does not believe in evolution.
In a later debate, Huckabee rejected for himself the belief that we are “descendants of a primate,” magnanimously suggesting that it was OK if others chose to believe it. Gee, thanks.
Pretty much all the presidential candidates, Democrats and Republicans, are freely spouting off about the centrality of faith in their lives, with Mitt Romney promising that his is not too weird. But it is only Huckabee who is the dogma-driven real deal – a man who as president would follow in Bush’s anti-science, anti-intellectual footsteps, a man who would feel “chosen” for the job and licensed by a power higher than the will of the voters.
The mission-zeal with which Bush has arrogated power and his maniacal unwillingness to compromise is packaged righteousness, pure and simple. Remember that Bush said he appealed to a “higher father” for strength when journalist Bob Woodward asked him if he’d consulted his father before invading Iraq.
Who needs information grounded in experience when you have prayer and prophesy?
And Huckabee would be Bush redux.
Here is something scary-ignorant. Last week, the Web site ChristiaNet-.com, which bills itself as “the world’s largest Christian portal,” cheered the results of a survey it took finding that half of its 1,400 Christian respondents said that dinosaurs and man roamed Earth at the same time.
Putting aside that the schoolteachers of these people should be slapped silly, these are Huckabee’s peeps. We can’t afford to put this kind of backward thinking and scientific illiteracy in the driver’s seat again."*